[nekojess]

Don't forget the various speed controllers have varying abilities to keep their signal cables in. And as they age, the springiness decreases and cables are more prone to fall out.

Talons have the clear advantage of being able to securely hold PWM cables in. Or if you use CAN with the Jaguars, the RJ connectors click in too.

We had some issues keeping PWMs in our spikes which were mounted upside down, which cost us some climb points. We put some tape on the PWM heads (to make it about 0.02mm thicker) and it fit snugly into Jaguars, and was better (but not perfect) with spikes. Other than that, we put an abundance of tape around it to hold it in, but not an ideal solution.

Also, I dislike spikes because there is a small gap between the casing and the the pins to slip in and get severely bent if pressing it in too hard (as was kind of required with the added tape). Also they'd fall apart because they're just held together with a simple plastic snap thing. Buuut they're small and are great if you just need on/off.

I haven't played with Victors in this regard though, so I don't know how well they hold their cables.